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Ed Miliband wins Labour Leadership

marklv
marklv Posts: 1,768 Forumite
in Debate House Prices & the Economy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11412031

The end of the Blairite era. It had to happen. The continuous Tory attacks against the public sector forced union members to abandon Blairism and go back to Labour's social-democratic roots.

Before attacking the young Miliband, remember that this guy has a first class degree from Oxford.
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  • cajef
    cajef Posts: 6,283 Forumite
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    What the hell has Milliballs winning the Labour leadership on a undemocratic union vote got to do with house prices.
  • PhylPho
    PhylPho Posts: 1,443 Forumite
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    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    Be a bloody disaster, he'd graduated from Cambridge then.
  • GeneHunt_2
    GeneHunt_2 Posts: 286 Forumite
    cajef wrote: »
    What the hell has Milliballs winning the Labour leadership on a undemocratic union vote got to do with house prices.

    'cos Red Ed doesn't want to pay off the deficit and that effects the economy....
  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    marklv wrote: »

    Before attacking the young Miliband, remember that this guy has a first class degree from Oxford.

    And?

    This either means he is very intellegent. Or knows how to fiddle the system.

    As I keep saying, a degree can be given away. It has no educational value.
  • Wookster
    Wookster Posts: 3,795 Forumite
    Labour is the party of spend spend spend spend spend and then spend some more.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    Ed Milliband lost amongst the Party MP's and the Labour Party members in every round.

    Only the Union vote got him through.

    Labour now unelectable by the way, with a swing to the left which will alienate the middle classes.
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • Malcolm.
    Malcolm. Posts: 1,079 Forumite
    I'm happy Balls and David Milliband didn't win.

    Ed seems (slightly) less annoying than his brother.

    TBH, I wasn't particularly fond of any of the candidates running.
  • GeneHunt_2
    GeneHunt_2 Posts: 286 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    Ed Milliband lost amongst the Party MP's and the Labour Party members in every round.

    Only the Union vote got him through.

    Labour now unelectable.

    David won the 1st,2nd, and 3rd rounds - and LOST - what sort of stupid voting system is that!
  • GeneHunt_2
    GeneHunt_2 Posts: 286 Forumite
    Wookster wrote: »
    Labour is the party of spend spend spend spend spend and then spend some more.

    and sadly Ed doesn't seem to believe that there is any urgency in cutting spending - which shows you that you can have a first class in degree and still be thick..... but I doubt his degree was in Economics...
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    GeneHunt wrote: »
    David won the 1st,2nd, and 3rd rounds - and LOST - what sort of stupid voting system is that!


    its the one that we are going to be invited to vote about come next May
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